The old man's eyes subconsciously turned, and then frowned and said: "Such an opportunity, it's a pity if you miss it......" After speaking, he glanced at Fang Xiaoyu, and suddenly realized that the other party was wearing a mask, he couldn't see his expression clearly, and he didn't feel confused when he felt the other party's breath, so he continued: "It's better to divide the area where your people are located, and I will order people to put the plague in other directions, and temporarily control it not to spread to other places, but in the palace...... The ......old man didn't continue, but the meaning was obvious, and she believed that Fang Xiaoyu could understand it.

Fang Xiaoyu's expression hidden under the mask was a little playful. Why did she always feel that there was something in the old man's words?

But she didn't act rashly, but thought pretendedly, her eyebrows furrowed together, her eyes lowered, and her hesitation seemed to be visible from the mask.

The old man didn't seem to be very willing to make a decision, so he said: "You don't need to think much about this matter, whether things should be done according to my suggestion depends on the mind of the master behind the scenes." You might as well consult with him, and you can't do anything about the overall situation. By the way, in fact, my heart is still towards King Yun. It's just that I am the emperor's person, and I have to be impartial on the surface. If King Meng's family gets things done, with King Yun's methods and my connections, I may be able to help your master with some small favors. ”

The old man kept giving Fang Xiaoyu a look, and the tone became a little more mysterious.

Fang Xiaoyu hooked the corners of his mouth, glanced at the old man, and said with a smile: "Conditions? You are always the emperor's person, and you are neutral in front of people, so you know who will kill King Yun and King Meng Lu at this time. Since you are loyal to the emperor, of course, there is no need to bet on which side so early, let you always take refuge in Lord Yun, there will be no conditions. ”

The old man smiled awkwardly and said, "There are conditions. Although I am a member of the emperor, I have been sent here for more than 20 years, and I am tired of staying there, tired of it, and want to go out for a walk. But the emperor's destiny is like the eagle with folded wings. With shackles on your body, how can you fly? I have carefully analyzed the forces of King Yun and King Meng. Although King Meng is not a good child, if he talks about ruthless methods, he is decisive in his work. Or Yun Wang Ye is better. I was sent here for more than 20 years, and I think you can see that if I was really loved by the emperor, I wouldn't be in this embarrassing position now. I'm old, and I have to plan for myself. For children and grandchildren. The merit of the dragon is a great achievement, presumably the Cloud King will not treat me badly, right? ”

"You don't plan to take refuge in King Meng when you're old?" Fang asked with a smile, making it impossible to guess what he was thinking.

"Thought. I don't hide it from you, and it's useless to hide it from you. I abandoned my neutral stance and took refuge in one side, saying that it was too false to be loyal, and that I had to plan for myself and my family after all. King Meng and King Yun are equal in power, and the same means are endless, and who loses and who wins is honest, and it is not clear until now. It's just that I always have to choose one to take refuge in. I got the news that the emperor has not been feeling well recently. After all, he is old...... If I delay any longer and try to get left and right, I may end up with a situation where I can't please both ends. King Meng has a rigid personality, although he uses people, he does not believe in people. The King of Clouds is more atmospheric, and for the sake of the family, it is more reassuring for the King of Clouds. "The head of the old man's analysis is the Tao.

Fang Xiaoyu sneered from the bottom of his heart.

"That being the case, I will report this matter to my master, and if I am weak, I will send someone to inform you of the old man. The great affairs of the dynasty are important. Presumably, the master and the prince of Yun are both understanding people, but if the prince of Yun and the master agree, you can guarantee afterwards that you will not let the king of Meng steal the limelight. If Lord Yun loses the throne because of this, you must know what will happen to you......" Fang Xiaoyu said half-threateningly.

"That's nature. My children and grandchildren are still in the imperial capital, how dare they play any tricks with King Yun. The old man hurriedly promised.

"That being the case, I took my leave. If you stay here too long, you may be suspicious. This is a critical moment, and you can't afford to lose a big one. Fang smiled and said goodbye to the old man. Leaving the treehouse, it was only a moment before disappearing into the woods.

The old man's eyes narrowed slightly, the corners of his mouth hooked up a sneer, and he made sure that there was no one around to ambush, so he took out a carrier pigeon from the pigeon cage behind the tree house, dipped the pen in ink, wrote a few words on the slip of paper, tied it to the pigeon's leg, and released it in the opposite direction to when Fang Xiaoyu left.

After the dove flew away, the old man returned to the house, leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes, with a condensed smile on his lips. But he didn't notice that there was a pair of eyes indifferently looking at the direction of the pigeon's flight, the corners of the mouth hooked a trace of arc, and then the body was like a swallow, shuttling through the woods at a very fast speed, chasing in the direction of the pigeon's flight.

When the pigeon flew out of the old man's sight, a stone the size of a chess piece in the man's hand shot straight into the sky, and the carrier pigeon, which had not yet flown far, fell straight to the dirt, kicked its legs, but did not die.

If the old man saw this scene, he would definitely be horrified, there are still people in this world who have light functions comparable to birds, what kind of terrible secret can this do?

Fang Xiaoyu picked up the carrier pigeon on the ground, took the note from its leg, and found that the note was blank, without the slightest trace of writing.

I did it according to the gourd drawing scoop in the way that Qian Chuanzi deciphered the handwriting on the back of the map left by Mu You before, but it had no effect.

Fang smiled and squinted, and said in his heart that the old man could not see through her that she was fake, so he tricked her in this way? Or is it to test her?

Fang Xiaoyu refused to give up, and looked at the pigeon left and right, and suddenly, she found a trace on the pigeon's neck. This pigeon is a special breed with a long neck hair, as if it were carrying a mini scarf. This pigeon is very durable and very sensitive to direction, and even if you take it off the trajectory of the flight, it will be able to fly back on its own.

Fang Xiaoyu brushed the hair on the pigeon's neck and found that there was a very thin thread tied around its neck, and a very small note was tied on the thread, almost the size of a person's thumb nail.

Fang Xiaoyu took down the note and opened it carefully, the handwriting on the note was so small that it was almost impossible to see with the naked eye. Fang Xiaoyu sneered, not wanting this old man to be able to write slightly.

This handwriting is written using a special pen. The nib of this pen is very sharp, and the size of the characters written has strict requirements for the writer's control of zhì.

This old man's internal strength is definitely superb in this world, and the size of the handwriting in the microscript can't help him at all.

Fortunately, Fang Xiaoyu is no stranger to microwriting, and after reading the content in his heart with a little difficulty, Fang Xiaoyu re-rolled the note, re-tied the thread around the pigeon's neck in the same way as the old man in the middle, flattened the hair, covered it, and then released it again.

After this qiē was done, Fang Xiaoyu smiled knowingly.

This trip to the northwest has gained a lot. Just knowing about some of Da Zhou's conspiracies was beyond the value of her coming to the Northwest in the first place.

The old man said that he wanted to take refuge in King Yun, but in fact, he was already a person from King Meng.

Perhaps, a long time ago, he was the eyeliner that King Meng placed next to the Great Zhou Emperor.

I don't know if the Great Zhou Emperor was suspicious of him or really didn't treat him very well and sent him here. One stay is more than 20 years.

In the past 20 years, he has not been idle, and naturally he has secretly developed his own power. Otherwise, as the connector of the Yun King's lineage, he just waited for the people of the Yun King's line to send him information on the northwest defense and various places, so why did he need to plant his own people in the capital?

Since the manpower can be placed at will, why do you need the Yun King Yun and the Meng King to send their direct descendants to lurk in Dacheng?

Fang smiled and felt it. She might be able to understand some of Da Zhou's approaches. Insert the direct descendants of the prince in Dacheng, no, maybe there is more than one country in Dacheng, if it is an ordinary spy, why risk it with the lineage? Since they have to use their lineage, perhaps their target is the one in the palace from the beginning, or that seat.

He now suspects that Zhou Guifei is related to Da Zhou. If the fact that Zhou Xiang's concubine was dropped was for Zhou Guifei's 'recognition of ancestors and return to the ancestors' many years later, then it makes sense.

After Zhou Guifei returned to Zhou Xiang's mansion, she naturally regained the status that her daughter should have, and because she did not take good care of her daughter, her daughter suffered abroad for many years, Zhou Xiang and his wife must have felt guilty. I love it even more.

As an important minister of the former dynasty, when the emperor chooses a concubine, he will always select some women in their mansion to enter the palace as concubines, also to appease the previous dynasty. When Zhou Xiang was not retired, he was the prime minister of the dynasty, and the emperor naturally chose his concubine into the palace to show his favor. This may also be Zhou Guifei at the beginning, no, maybe it was calculated by that woman.

Zhou Guifei was made a concubine after entering the palace, and although Zhou Xiang retired later, Yu Wei was still there, how many people in the court were Zhou Xiang's disciples and students. If the emperor wants to win over this force, he must always show goodwill with Zhou Xiang.

This person has retired, in addition to rewarding some gold and silver wealth, so that his concubine has a pivotal position in the harem, it is not a means of wooing. Therefore, Zhou Guifei was only in her thirties, and she had already sat in the position of concubine and glorified the harem.

However, what is the purpose of sending Zhou Guifei into the palace?

Fang Xiaoyu made a bold guess. Zhou Guifei gave birth to two princesses, the second princess and the second prince. The princess has no possibility of competing for the throne, but the prince is different.

In fact, Ye Shucheng was indeed ambitious for that position, and he made him successful in his previous life. So. If it is assumed that Zhou Guifei is the direct bloodline of King Yun, then although the child she gave birth to has half of the emperor's blood on her body, she also has half of the blood of King Yun.

If one day Ye Shucheng ascends the throne and becomes the emperor of Dacheng, is it in another sense, that Da Zhou ruled Dacheng in a roundabout way?

Let's suppose that if Da Zhou's ambitions don't stop there......

The emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty had many sons and daughters, and if he had calculated so in other countries...... Doesn't that want to dominate the world?

Fang Xiaoyu felt that her brain was a bit big. But if you think about it like this, it can be explained in a single qiē. And if she were the emperor of the Great Zhou, she would definitely do it.

Fang Xiaoyu looked at the direction where the pigeon had already flown away without a shadow, remembered the content of Fang Cai's letter, and suddenly snorted and laughed coldly.

It was written in the letter from the old man to the king of Meng. In his heart, he said that he had fooled King Yun's people and asked him to cooperate with the actions of King Meng's lineage, pretending to take refuge in King Yun, but in fact he was looking for an opportunity to eradicate the power of King Yun's line in Beijing.

It's just that he doesn't seem to know the specific power of King Yun's vein in Beijing, and he just has some guesses. And this guess is very close to Fang Xiaoyu's guess.

Fang Xiaoyu felt that something was wrong when the old man said that he was going to take refuge in King Yun. Since he knew that he was just a dog under the bloodline of King Yun's lineage, how could he tell him so much for the sake of digging his heart and lungs?

The person who meets for the first time can open his heart and tell her such an important thing, she is not the dragon Aotian in the novel, and the spirit of the king is surrendered to everyone, then there must be another plan.

She thought that the reason why this old man recognized her as a subordinate of the descendants of King Yun's lineage was probably because of Princess An's jade pendant. She didn't forget the strange color that flashed in the old man's eyes when he saw this jade pendant at the beginning.

Fang Xiaoyu didn't stop any longer, but rushed back to Yu Zhou Cheng and the others along the way.

The old man must have known that something was wrong with the prince at the beginning, and his spies in the capital should have already sent a message to him, so he did not doubt his words, and he also mentioned in the letter that he wanted the emperor to write to the emperor to temporarily give up the invasion of the northwest, so as not to cause extraneous branches and spoil the good things in the capital. Presumably, this year, the northwest can live some stable days.

Just give her time......

Fang Xiaoyu took a deep breath. As long as she is given time, she will definitely find out the truth of the matter.

Although she is afraid of trouble. But she didn't like to be a slave to the country.

What's more, when she thought of letting Ye Shucheng ascend the throne and rule the country, she still had to bow down to this scumbag, she felt as disgusting as eating half a fly.

With Ye Shucheng's vicious thoughts, if he really waits for him to ascend the throne, it will never be possible for this Zhenyuan General's Mansion to have a good life. And she had Ye Shucheng's face like that before, the person who would repay her, on the surface, she was gentle and generous and tolerant, but in private, she might not be looking forward to breaking her corpse into thousands of pieces to relieve the hatred in her heart.

Fang Xiaoyu followed the code to find Zhou Cheng, arranged some follow-up training one by one, and then told the others separately, Fang Xiaoyu planned to rush back to the capital in advance.

She needed to be faster, faster. Since this old man is a man of the king, then the plague cannot be avoided. What will be controlled within a certain range, and in the palace, such nonsense is only spread in the East Palace, and she doesn't believe a word.

The old man knew that there were descendants of King Yun and King Meng in the capital, but in his previous life, the plague still swept through the capital, causing countless casualties, and he didn't see that he really controlled the scope and did not affect these nobles.

Fang Xiaoyu clearly remembered that when the plague broke out in his previous life, even the palace was not spared. The number of eunuchs in the palace who died every day was only a little higher. The most important thing is that in her previous life, the second princess was also infected with the plague. That's Zhou Guifei's biological daughter, and she is also a nobleman. It was only later that Shen Shanruo developed a prescription for treating the plague, and the second princess picked up a life. (To be continued.) )

PS: Thank you [alicej] for the commuter pass~